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Tiny mini tweaks for the guest bath.  I replaced the builder grade towel bar with this black one that has hooks and a towel rack all in one. And the toilet paper holder as well. Awhile ago I took some wrapping paper and put it here as wallpaper. I dig it.  Wouldn't this mirror look cool in here? Painted another color I think but wouldn't it? I got another basket to replace this one from my idols. Top of the cabinet is looking like this lately. Three years in and still haven't painted it. Next big break right?

Remember our original plan for the backyard where we'd have a playspace for Alice set up? There was one thing we did not take into consideration when planning to go with the mulch was the dogs because they POOP all over this place. We will be working on teaching them to do their business in a designated area BUT in the meantime the best way to guarantee they won't be in there would be to build a fence around the area. So this is where I'd put the fence as designated by the broken lines.  With the whole farmhouse thing in mind, a fence about yay high with this chicken wire grid fence business would be perfect. And not to be a super lazy parent/aunt but how great would it be to toss some kids in there, close the gate and let them hang while we're sitting on the couch nearby chatting it up and getting our drink on? Now as to ground cover... due to the drought I want some fake turf. I've asked around and I'm convinced it's the way to go. Not only w...

You know what I love reading online? Those day in the life things. So I says to myself, slef, let's do one of those for Alice. This was Monday, the day before I went back to work and with the pressure of knowing I was doing a day in the life this was a little extra outdoorsy and out of the average.  9am ish: I was up and she still wasn't. This is unusual. She's usually up by around 8/8:30 but on this day she slept in. I think she's growing because she's been sleeping pretty well lately. I spent some time starting breakfast and coffee until I hear her. 10am she finally wakes up. We give her some private time when she wakes up and go in when her sounds change from happy to bored. Usually takes about 20 minutes. It is BAD to go in there earlier because she will not want to come out and you'll be waiting anyway. 11ish: I change her diaper and put her in something other than PJs. I cut up some berries for her as her 1st breakfast and let her play in the k...

On my last day before I started a three week job, we got stuff done. It was supposed to be a super easy update but I dumbly didn't realize the previous hardware in the kitchen was 3" apart and the hardware I purchased was 3 1/2". DOH. I tried to find alternates that I liked better that were the right size but I just couldn't find anything I liked more than the simple one I had already purchased. Matt being Matt sensed I was lollygagging on the project (as in I kept moving the box of pulls from one room to the other) so he took it upon himself to just knock it out. Took him about 4-5 hours to drill new holes. We traded places and I spent Alice's naptime in the backyard pulling weeds and cleaning up after the dogs.  He's my hero for doing it and what a difference it makes. Definitely more our style now. Don't they just make the cabinets POP? Whenever we eventually gut the kitchen and change the cabinets, we plan on reusing the hardware so h...

In our efforts to modern farmhouse the place we changed up the entry way with a sideboard that I normally wouldn't have gone with.  Since it was going to be bigger than the one we had before, we decided to move the bench to the dining area and now we have a way bigger area to walk through which is very nice indeed. I would love a new runner sometime, we'll find it.  And so after trying a few iterations with the challenge of floating a couch in a room with three windows and no wall really wide enough for a TV, this is where we are now. Oh and the kid element, because a table behind the sofa really did not work with grabbing of things... thing. The coat rack is super loaded with our goodies. I think about hanging hooks but honestly, this sucker can take a licking and take on ticking. Galvanized metal means farm. I don't care if they're overplayed, I love chalkboards. So we took the stuff that was in the tv and moved it here. One side of just board ga...